Robber hits Wallingford pharmacy for drugs

A robber made off with prescription drugs from a Wallingford pharmacy Tuesday during a daylight holdup.

Police later made an arrest, but aren’t saying that the man arrested was also the man who held up the pharmacy.

Seattle police said that at 12:18 p.m. a man wearing a covering over his mouth and nose, wrap-around sunglasses, a gray ski cap and a dark-green camouflaged jacket walked in the pharmacy in the 1800 block of North 45th Street.

He produced a robbery note and had a hand in a pocket as if he had a gun. He made off with a bag of oxycodone.

Police later found a suspicious man loitering near a black SUV about three blocks away at North 43rd Street and Meridian Avenue North.

He proved evasive to police questions, and officers discovered that he was wanted on a Corrections Department felony escape warrant for robbery.

Officers arrested the 38-year-old man and later booked him into jail. They also impounded the SUV.